Mansha Daswani

Central TV is set to adapt The Wishing Tree and The Job Interview for Mongolia, with both set to launch in the spring of next year.

The executive VP for the Asia Pacific shares the company’s winning formula for bringing its stable of hit properties to Asia.

Thailand will host the first-ever LGBTQ+ edition of The Voice in 2025.

The managing director of global entertainment on risk aversion and financing.

The president and representative director on the success of LOL: Last One Laughing.

Format IP owners at MIPCOM were firmly focused on showcasing broad, four-quadrant entertainment options.

Kate Phillips, director of unscripted at the BBC, and Sumi Connock, creative director of formats at BBC Studios, showcased trends in the vibrant game and quiz formats sector at a MIPCOM session this morning, where they were joined onstage by the producers of some of the company’s latest launches.

Presented by Broadcast Program Export Association of Japan (BEAJ)’s Makito Sugiyama and The WIT’s Virginia Mouseler, with commentary from Empire of Arkadia’s Fotini Paraskakis and Small World’s Tim Crescenti, the Treasure Box Japan showcase at MIPCOM featured new formats available for international broadcasters and platforms to adapt.

James Farrell, head of international originals at Amazon MGM Studios, and Akihiko Okamoto, president and representative director of Japanese content powerhouse Yoshimoto Kogyo, discussed their long-standing partnership that resulted in the global hit LOL—Last One Laughing in a MIPCOM keynote today.

With BCWW underway, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) has clinched a deal for the scripted series Extremely Inappropriate! to be remade in South Korea and has aligned with Something Special to co-develop a new non-scripted entertainment format.